bold and italic text – use single quote marks for anything that would normally be in italics

underlining

slashes

subscripts and superscripts

ampersands – spell out as ‘and’.

Education Services Australia editorial style is informed by the Style manual for authors, editors and printers (6th edn, Wiley). The Education Services Australia Editorial guide for metadata provides alternatives to those styles that are affected by the metadata restrictions, such as italics for book titles and the inability to use bullets for lists.